{"id":2153,"date":"2017-03-02T15:34:30","date_gmt":"2017-03-02T07:34:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/magicalbits.net\/?p=2153"},"modified":"2017-03-02T15:34:30","modified_gmt":"2017-03-02T07:34:30","slug":"elegance-the-future-is-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/?p=2153","title":{"rendered":"Elegance &#8211; The Future Is Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Looking at these PCM files gave me a new appreciation for design, and helped me appreciate more how important it is to understand the reason behind design decisions. In a lot of ways this format feels like it should be \u201cbad\u201d design: it\u2019s strange, it\u2019s idiosyncratic, it\u2019s internally inconsistent. But every single detail is carefully chosen; everything serves a purpose. Each of these idiosyncrasies was carefully chosen to solve a particular problem, or to ensure peak performance in a particular bottleneck. Given the restrictions of a 16-bit game console, all of these choices were necessary to be able to support constantly streaming audio like this in the first place. Aligning every single detail of a format or API with the job which needs to be done is its own kind of elegance\u2014a kind of elegance I understand a little better now.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/mistys-internet.website\/blog\/blog\/2016\/01\/27\/elegance\">Elegance &#8211; The Future Is Now<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looking at these PCM files gave me a new appreciation for design, and helped me appreciate more how important it is to understand the reason behind design decisions. In a lot of ways this format feels like it should be \u201cbad\u201d design: it\u2019s strange, it\u2019s idiosyncratic, it\u2019s internally inconsistent. But every single detail is carefully [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2153"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2154,"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2153\/revisions\/2154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magicalbits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}